May 2011 Entries

Want to know what was popular in the world of web development this week? Look no further – here’s a weekly round up of 10 of the most popular items posted this week. Print Loves Web (Monday May 23 2011, 428 tweets) Better Image Management With WordPress (Thursday May 26 2011, 383 tweets) Building An Effective ‘Coming Soon’ Page For Your Product (Tuesday May 24 2011, 326 tweets) Introduction to DNS: Explaining The Dreaded DNS Delay (Wednesday May 25 2011, 220 tweets) Quick Tip: Create Cross-Browser Datepickers in Minutes (Tuesday May 24 2011, 181 tweets)...

If you’re playing Rift and don’t already have the collectors edition, then you might be interested in the $5 upgrade going on this weekend. Basically get yourself a turtle for cheap! Don’t settle for the average Ascended experience. Travel Telara in style with a speedy mount, a unique Lifetouched pet, and more space for your wondrous wares (for all of your characters). The RIFT Digital Collector’s Edition upgrade includes these exclusive in-game items that enhance your adventures. Tags: Gaming

JSONSelect is an experimental selector language for JSON. Apparently it feels like CSS – I hope that doesn’t mean it performs differently across browsers for random reasons. Still, interesting. Although I’d love to see LinqToJSON – anyone? Tags: Web Development

You Can Now Whore Yourself Out by Tagging Products and Corporate Pages on Facebook – while I can see there’s some potential for this to be a positive thing for small business or manufacturers of niche products, mostly it sounds like an incredibly bad idea. Not that it matters as clickjacking is hopefully going to kill off Facebook in a few months, right? I hope so.

jQuery Image Scroller Plugin is a neat effect that’s useful for navigating larger images. Jump straight to the demo to see it in action – it’s the sort of thing that’s going to work really well in specific situations, and not at all in others. Tags: jQuery, JavaScript, Web Development

PrettyCheckboxes makes checkboxes and radio buttons pretty! Yes, really! Surprise! I’ve played around trying to do something similar with a previous script, and have to say that the prettyCheckboxes solution looks a lot cleaner (although it still feels like a bad idea, and something you should only do if you really have to imho). Tags: JavaScript, Web Development

Microjs.com contains a load of “micro” JavaScript frameworks. Useful if you’re trying to do something simple and need a lightweight solution rather than a full framework. It’s quite surprising how many of these there are. Tags: JavaScript

While reading about the new iMacs I noticed a rather amusing little line describing Bootcamp: Boot Camp is Apple's software that allows users to install Windows 7 on their Intel-based Mac. It’s kind of amusing and reassuring that Windows 7 is the only choice when it comes to Windows versions, and that it didn’t take too long for this to happen. Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Windows